From our Founder
I'm Travis Smith, a general contractor here in Washington State. I am an ICC-certified Residential Plans Examiner and Residential Energy Inspector/Plans Examiner. Washington's Energy Code is a much higher threshold than the IECC. The credits, rules, exclusions, and exceptions can easily cause confusion and frustration.
I'm a spreadsheet geek, but I found the available tools either costly or inadequate. While I set out to create a better spreadsheet, I quickly found software was the better solution. So, I teamed up with some business and technology consultants to build a better version of the free calculator and walkthrough process for those less familiar with the energy code.
The proof
Despite YouTube videos, blog posts, and AI, the published energy-code documents everyone relies on carry errors. I went line-by-line through the actual Washington Administrative Code and built the engine on the law itself — and caught the state's own published documents disagreeing with it. See what I found →
Other Builds
Besides construction, I've been building out other tools:
- Invoices that file themselves — inbox to folder to printer to archive, no human touching them. Saves about 2 hours per week.
- Bid workbooks that organize multi-vendor quotes side by side — and caught a supplier's quantity error worth $1,450 on a single job.
- Business memory systems — the operation that ran out of one owner's head gets organized and memorialized so it can operate like a business, instead of a job.
- An AI assistant that can't make things up — it answers only from certified source text, cites the exact section, and refuses to give a number it can't source.
- Vision tools that read construction plans — specs, square footage, schedules, notes.
- One-button Excel tools — type your inputs, hit Run, get the full math on an audit sheet and the charts dropped in.
- The production stack around all of it — payments, authentication, backups, 3,000+ automated tests — plus websites that rank, including a #1 organic Google result for a competitive local service term.
Residential energy-code question this tool covers? Same form — straight answer, or I'll point you to who can actually help.